A classic song about a forbidden love
Adultery dramas we often see in dramas, movies, and TV talk shows—the love that can never come true.
We’ve gathered songs about these “forbidden loves.” There are many beautifully portrayed dramas that make your heart race, but what if you yourself were to fall into a love that isn’t allowed…? Here, we’ll introduce plenty of songs that capture the bittersweet feelings of such forbidden love.
From songs told from a woman’s perspective to those from a man’s point of view, there are more tracks about forbidden love than you might think.
Perhaps that’s because many people are secretly suffering over a love that shouldn’t be….
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Masterpieces about forbidden love (21–30)
PrologueUru
It’s a bittersweet love song about how, even though you shouldn’t fall in love, you can’t help but follow the person with your eyes.
It was released in 2018 as a single by Uru and was used as the theme song for the drama “Chuugaku Seishin Nikki” (Middle School Saint Diary).
The drama portrays a forbidden love between a teacher and a student, and this song matched it perfectly, making it all the more heartrending.
I really want people who are going through a similarly painful love to listen to it.
“Why did we have to meet?”—it’s the kind of helpless feeling that brings you to tears.
signalaiko
This is a song by aiko included on the single “Plamai” released in 2015.
It was used as the theme song for the film “My Senpai and Me.” It portrays the feelings of a woman who is in love and knows the feelings are mutual, yet remains somehow unstable.
Looking at the lyrics, it seems the two are not in a boyfriend–girlfriend relationship.
It might be a relationship they can’t tell anyone about.
Her single-minded love, the desire to stay by his side no matter what kind of relationship it is… is deeply heartrending.
Masterpieces about forbidden love (31–40)
A person I mustn’t fall in love withCHIHIRO
A perfectly polished, refreshing pop sound.
Even so, the melody isn’t light; it carries a certain weight, a sturdy, deep-rooted strength.
Does “someone you mustn’t fall in love with” mean someone who already has a partner, an affair, or someone underage? In any case, the lyrics feel brighter than the words themselves, as if they’re about falling for someone you shouldn’t.
There really are many kinds of songs about forbidden love.
A love I can tell no one abouterica
Even just the song title “A Love I Can’t Tell Anyone About” already feels heartbreaking, doesn’t it? Choosing the archaic ‘ienu’ instead of the more common ‘ienai’ for “can’t say” conveys a loneliness too heavy to bear.
Whether the person is married, the same sex, a school teacher—each situation differs, but in the end the struggle comes from the same mismatch.
It’s one of those songs that makes you think, “I can’t believe I didn’t know such a beautiful track existed.”
I want you to tell me you love me.Oku Hanako
A song about a painful love, “Anata ni Suki to Iwaretai” (“I Want You to Tell Me You Love Me”).
It was released in 2008 as a single by Hanako Oku.
In this song, she portrays the bittersweet mix of happiness and aching sorrow that comes from being treated kindly by a man who already has a girlfriend.
For anyone experiencing a similar love, it’s a song that will surely bring you to tears.
You’re seen as a friend, but in truth you’re in love… such a painful romance.
The phrase used as the title is the unspoken wish held deep in her heart.
AccompliceSuneo Heā
This “accomplice” refers to being accomplices in love.
To me, it also sounded a bit like wanting to whisk you away.
How did the world of these lyrics look to you? Love is a single story with no fixed ending.
Spinning the tale of a forbidden love, journeying with you beyond the stars in a fairy-tale way—that’s Suneohair’s craft.
I imagine many people love the atmosphere these lyrics create.
You&MeMiura Daichi
Even if it was a forbidden love, isn’t it a happy thing to be able to look back later and think, “That was a good love”? That’s what came to mind when I listened to this song.
It may not be flashy, but it will surely resonate with listeners whose hearts have just been broken.
It’s a track where Daichi Miura comes through beyond formats like Black music or bluesy styles.